Ordnance Survey Obelisk

A Grade II Listed Building in Waltham Forest, London

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Listing Text

TQ 39 SE POLE HILL
Chingford, E4
1/18

- Ordnance Survey Obelisk

- II

Ordnance Survey Obelisk. 1824. Granite monolith. Above eight feet high with
battered sides and flat top. Inscribed plaque inset. Erected to mark the direction
of the true norLh from the Royal Observatory at Greenwich. The meridian was changed
in 1850 and the point of zero now passes 19 feet to the east of the Obelisk.

Listing NGR: TQ3839594950

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